BMJ Season Premiere Recap
Being Mary Jane Season
Premiere Recap
By: Honey B. Baker
Okay, I’ll be the first
to admit I was no in a rush to watch the season 4 premiere of Being Mary Jane.
Because I knew Mary Jane would be coming with the bullshit. And as per usual,
she did not let me down. I was disappointed in the lapse of time between this
season and last. Obviously, so many things have transpired since the closing
scene of last season’s finale and now were left filling in the gaps.
To be honest, I would
have much rather this season having picked up right where last season left off.
But enough about my preferences and let’s get into the recap.
The episode began with
Mary Jane seductively walking into her bedroom and asking the mystery man to
give her a moment. At this moment, I already began rolling my eyes. I love Mary
Jane but I was disappointed that she is still trying to sex her way through
past hurts with temporary flings with even more temporary men.
Later on in the episode
it is revealed that Mary Jane’s lover for the night is a nameless, handsome
Brit that she met while bar crawling with her sidekick, Kara. After having a
freakout moment about having an anonymous one-night stand she composes herself
and returns to Mr. Brit in bedroom and places a rubberband on his wrist. As far
as that is concerned I bet on Wednesday morning office supply stores had an
influx of women purchasing bags of rubberbands. The purpose of the rubberband
was to signal to Mr. Brit how she wanted him to fuck her. I hate using the word
fuck but that’s all it was. Although, I thought the idea was silly I could deal
with that better than her next fantasy she released upon Mr. Brit. Her true
fantasy was she wanted a man to tell her, “I love you.”
As this scene played out
I profusely shook my head incredulously and shouted, “Really, bitch?!?” at my
television. It has been known since season one that MJ is love starved. But
could you imagine even in your wildest dreams asking a random one-night tryst
to tell you they love you? To be honest, I walked out of the room for a moment
after that scene because her inner despair made me uncomfortable.
As far as the career
front is concerned it looks like all was well for MJ with a big move to a
national media market. However, MJ quietly reveals to Kara that her parting with her
former employer was not as amicable as she would like people to believe.
Apparently, during the show’s lapse she began to rail against police brutality on air in the aftermath of Niecy’s violent encounter with a police officer. Her
“militant” stance apparently did not make her any friends at SNC especially
considering the close calls and run-ins she had in the past with SNC execs.
Speaking of Niecy, she
is possibly my least favorite character on the show. However, it is clear that
Niecy and her children especially her son are suffering long term trauma as a
result of her violent traffic stop. The show writers try to fill in the gaps
about what transpired since the season finale but it left much to be desired. However, it was alluded to that in an attempt to sully Niecy they attacked her family's past including Patrick's past drug use. Unsurprising Niecy’s baby daddy, Dante has popped back on the scene and it’s
clear he has his eyes on spending Niecy’s settlement money and it is also clear
Niecy is blind to this fact.
Back to MJ in New York,
rumbles have begun to circulate that Rhonda Sales, an veteran black star
newscaster (and MJ's professional idol) will be stepping down and MJ is a shoo in to be her replacement.
However, Rhonda quickly crushes MJ’s hopes with a nasty read and she makes it
clear that she is not going anywhere for at least 5 years and that MJ was going to be
froze out, literally.
While on the job, MJ
runs back into Mr. Brit who flirts with her live on air and after the camera
cuts he reveals that he feels “fate” brought him there. At this moment, I just
kinda sat there with the “Really, dude?!?!?” look on my face. He is charming
but a dude popping up on air on your job is creepy. Mr. Brit leaves MJ with a
ticket to attend a comedy show.
It also revealed in the
season premiere that MJ has retained a $20,000 matchmaker. It is clear that the
matchmaker is not impressed with Messy Mary Jane Paul from their initial meet and
by the close of the episode the matchmaker has broken up with MJ and told her
in so many words she needed to get her shit together. MJ's issues must be extremely deep if the matchmaker was not willing to take her $20,000.
MJ ends up attending
Lee’s comedy show and is won over by his charm and I couldn’t help but get my
hopes up a tad. But if I know MJ the way I know MJ somehow she will screw this
up. I mean after all this is the chick who stole a man’s sperm out of condom
and put it in her freezer like it was some damn Ben and Jerry’s or Häagen Dazs.
I mean after all this is the same chick who went around peeing in dude’s beds. I
mean after all this is the chick who is just messy for messy’s sake.
I want to see MJ win on
all fronts, career and love wise. However, like the matchmaker told MJ she has
some major blind spots that she needs to address before she can be in a
position to be ready for Mr. Right. In all honesty, I am still on the fence
about whether or not I will religiously watch BMJ this season. But I have grown
tired of Mary Jane’s messiness. At what point is she going to grow? Every time
I think I see growth she soon regresses.
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